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when so much of what we are asked to do is utterly unnecessary to the good order and common life of the dioceses of the episcopal church we could start by banning all resolutions that have to do with public policy because nobody cares we re in an echo chamber pretending that we have the power to actually do anything when we don t then we could continue by banning all resolutions that merely encourage or suggest or call on usually they re about stuff that s already happening those who are interested are doing it anyway and those who aren t are never even going to notice more later but so glad this is behind us posted by daniel martins at 6 10 pm 7 comments thursday july 12 2018 2018 general convention day 10 general convention was doing its part to keep austin weird today never before in my experience in the house of bishops has legislative activity just ground to a halt we spent probably two hours today just standing at ease with nothing to do because we were all caught up on resolution for which the hob was the house of initial action and the stream of legislation from the house of deputies dried to a trickle and then was gone completely there was some speculation that there are so many new deputies this time more than 40 that parliamentary discipline has eroded with people lining up to pile on in favor of motions that are clearly going to pass and opposing motions that are clearly going to either pass or fail and this eats up time at any rate the bishops took advantage of this for a lot of informal collegial conversation the really big and really hot resolutions are behind us now i ve already written about them at some length and will have some summary comments when the convention is completely in the rear view mirror probably after i m home sometime sunday on a second tier we passed two today that i think are kind of problematic one is a partially revised book of occasional services much of the sclm proposal was sent back to them for more work but a great deal was considered by the majority ready to be let loose in the wild i don t have the time right now to enumerate my concerns in detail but most inevitably spring from the guiding hermeneutic of expansive inclusive language which means instances of masculine pronouns and images for god father lord almighty inter alia being ruthlessly redacted it s the cumulative effect of such efforts that undermine the whole collection any single given instance of swapping our lord in a prayer for savior for example is arguably innocuous but when i look over the results from a balcony level i m not sure i recognize the faith of the church catholic i just don t concerns are similar for a collection of emendations of the eucharistic prayers for rite ii putting them into the new non offensive idiom and authorizing them for trial use this one was a fiarly hasty and recent effort by a single priest who found some supportive deputies to move it along it had some egregious problems some of which were fixed by the deputies before we got it kudos to them but it s still half baked and highly problematic to my chagrin they will now be authorized rites of course canonically subject to the authority of the bishop posted by daniel martins at 7 41 pm no comments wednesday july 11 2018 2018 general convention day 9 convention has reached the point where anxiety rises about getting all the work done that s supposed to get done most of the committees have wound down mine finished its work this morning at 8 30 after meeting for an hour by contrast the legislative sessions are getting more frenetic time limits on debate are more strictly enforced both the total time on any given issue and the time allotted to each speaker amendments are discouraged because by this time each house is in the place of being asked to concur with an action already taken by the other and with a time certain for adjournment of friday at 5 00pm there s limited time for legislative volleyball between the two houses so for me the good news is that i can sleep in a bit tomorrow since there s no committee meeting the bad news is that the presiding officers have exercised their option of scheduling a legislative session for this evening i write around 5 30 the most significant debate in the house of bishops today was on resolution b012 it actually began life several months ago in the task force for the study of marriage its stated objective was to remove the ability of bishops to simply proscribe the celebration of same sex marriage in their dioceses in that form it was named a085 then a couple of weeks ago three moderate bishops introduced a resolution which was named b012 that was intended to be friendlier to the conservative theological minority it still mandated that ssm be made available conveniently to all who ask for it but gave dissenting bishops the option of assigning the parish making the request to the oversight of another bishop aka depo in the legislative sausage grinder a085 was folded into b012 with the language about depo significantly weakened though not obliterated and with a great deal of ambiguity about whether even rectors can decline to host such a celebration apparently running afoul of canons that give rectors full control over what happens on their church property the house of deputies passed b012 in this form within the last 24 hours the original movers of the original b012 along with the bishops on committee 13 in consultation with the presiding bishop s chancellors produced a slightly cleaned up version that clearly retains the authority of a rector over church property and it came to the bishops in that amended form it passed on an overwhelming voice vote and now goes back to the deputies to concur or not with the amendment i am very pleased the b012 passed and hope the deputies concur it is significantly less problematic than other versions of itself that were floating around the general convention ether a few days ago i am grateful for the charitable work of so many in moing toward a viable compromise however i did not vote for it i abstained when it became clear that my vote would not be needed for it to pass it is unconscionably wrong to erode the authority of a bishop to exercise the ministry of chief teacher and chief liturgical officer in a diocese i m grateful that there s a path a painful one to be sure but a clear one for keeping the spiritual fingerprints of both the diocese and its bishop off a liturgical act that purports to be what it simply cannot be and which denies the first article of both the apostles and nicene creeds that god is creator of heaven and earth as the archbishop of capetown reminded us yesterday the male female binary is part of creation marriage is not a human social construct it is god ordained general convention is presuming to deal with a matter well above its pay grade so b012 was the least bad possible outcome the church is a political animal and politics as has been said is the art of the possible among my concerns going forward is that both b012 and a068 the resolution on liturgical revision it s not quite accurate to call it prayer book revision anymore which is passed by the bishops yesterday and concurred with by the deputies today will get spun in opposite directions by the two main sides one much larger than the other and we ll end up with a classic batch of anglican fudge i ll probably have more to say about that in due course posted by daniel martins at 6 53 pm 10 comments tuesday july 10 2018 2018 general convention day 8 a couple of vignettes from my committee meeting this morning are illustrative of the state of things in the episcopal church these days in revising the revision of the book of occasional services one member a bishop pointed out the conclusion to a prayer in one of the liturgies a conclusion that was attempting to be trinitarian without using masculine language father son so it read creator word and holy spirit the bishop rightly observed that to use creator as a surrogate for father is theologically questionable since all three persons of the godhead are involved in the act of creation so he suggested fount instead citing ancient sources as precedent this led to a longish time of vigorous debate and the committee finally settled on holy and undivided trinity instead of delineating the individual persons this is ridiculous of course because you can t indefinitely avoid saying father when talking about god you can temporarily do so for some individual instance though as we saw today not easily but eventually you have to come back around to father or you lose your moorings entirely as another bishop pointed out to me yesterday jesus devotion was focused on the father how can ours do anything less there was once again this convention as there has been at least for the last two a resolution asking for the study of the practice of offering holy communion to unbaptized persons pleas for it in testimony were quite passionate but they were all completely non theological focusing rather on strategic and hortatory concerns like hospitality in the end i am grateful to say the resolution was defeated among both the bishops and the deputies on committee 12 it fails but we will no doubt see it again in three years it s an old friend the headline news of the afternoon was the bishops consideration of the prayer book revision resolution that we began discussing yesterday rather than a protracted and messy floor debate rumor was that there were forty pre filed amendments in the queue the chair immediately recognized the bishop of texas who moved a substitute resolution that instead of calling for a process of prayer book revision calls for retaining bcp79 as the authorized liturgical standard in tec but the development of a robust and ever growing changing collection of alternatives to prayer book texts that display some of the characteristic that the proposers of prayer book revision have been hoping to see so in terms of form if not content this adopts the english and canadians models where the prayer books of 1662 and 1958 respectively retain their status as the official liturgical standards but are largely ignored in favor of collections of alternative services there were a good many questions and a relatively small amount of actual debate but in a relatively short time this substitute was adopted and became the main motion and was passed overwhelmingly with scarcely audible opposition i find this a surprising and positive development it will allow episcopalians in places that are minded to do so to continue worshiping in the familiar forms without the shadow of revision constantly looming over them it will now go back to the house of deputies via a newly appointed small conference committee and committee 13 this is an encouraging development i should not fail to also mention that the readmission of the diocese of cuba back into union with general convention following a 52 year hiatus passed overwhelmingly and joyfully the bishop of cuba was immediately seated on the floor of the house posted by daniel martins at 11 37 pm 5 comments monday july 09 2018 2018 general convention day 7 we ve now reached that phase of convention where the big bits of legislative sausage are emerging from the committee grinder and are ready to be fried up in the pan resolution a068 which calls for the beginning of the sclm process for prayer book revision was passed somewhat narrowly by the house of deputies yesterday this afternoon it floated to the surface in the house of bishops we spent about an hour on it in a committee of the whole format so without actual parliamentary debate including table conversation questions and answers of the committee chair bishop jeff lee of chicago and statements from the microphones then it was time for recess my quick read at this moment is that it will either be substantially modified or just be defeated which is to say way more spoke against it than for it of course the energy behind the whole thing is is a desire for less or no masculine language for god and a generally less patriarchal tone in liturgical diction i ve already shared my views on that subject most all but the handful of truly conservative bishops are conceptually in favor of this however there are countervailing forces chief among which are concern about the cost and concern that it represents a turn inward at a moment when tec needs to be looking outward that the process of liturgical revision will distract us from the presiding bishop s announced emphases on evangelism racial reconciliation and care of creation so i m not making any predictions because i ve been around long enough to know that the political winds can turn abruptly one bishop could yet get up and push just the right rhetorical buttons during a two minute floor speech and incite a major shift of opinion but it s by no means a done deal many have suggested and this would be my hope that we follow the lead of the church of england and the anglican church of canada among others and create a new collection of liturgical resources fully authorized that would bleed off the energy around inclusive expansive language texts and leave the prayer book alone it would certainly cost less and be far less divisive churchwide i expect something like this will come up in tomorrow s floor debate the other news today is that the house of deputies passed an amended version of b012 there is still a lack of a clear consensus on just what it says or means one reading of the language can quite plausibly be interpret to re insert the concept of depo though not the term itself which was in the original version drafted by three moderate bishops it s not as clear as i and my communion partner colleagues would like but it s there if interpreted generously as a clause in the resolution encourages it can also be plausibly read to reassure rectors that their canonical authority to decline to either preside at or even allow any wedding in their church for any reason is preserved intact however the language of b012 is also capable of being spun in a way that would require a dissenting rector to step aside and allow another priest to come in and conduct a same sex wedding if the demand is made it actually sets up a canonical conflict and the provision for dissenting bishops to turn responsibility for such an event over to another bishop is clear enough if you re just talking about depo for the afternoon but it s less clear about how a dissenting bishop might create even thicker insulation between him herself and a parish that wishes to host same sex weddings this alternative truth narrative is being enthusiastically purveyed in social media by progressive voices so the fat lady has not yet sung on this one either tomorrow will be an interesting day posted by daniel martins at 9 06 pm 1 comment 2018 general convention day 6 life in the house of bishops was pretty mundane today so much so that we finished our agenda ahead of sc...